Smiling Mass Murderer Robert Bales It is hard to get people to care about Afghanistan and, despite fighting a massive war there, hard to get it in the news. Most of the thousands of civilians who have died have gone largely uncovered and become a statistic at best. So when Afghanistan does manage to dominate the news cycle, one might reasonably hope that it would be a story that truly gets at the core of the condition and problems in Afghanistan and the media analysis could focus on how to fix those problems. Alas, this was not the case recently. . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: What coverage of wanton killings says about our biases

The manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is headed for a dramatic makeover. The artistic director of the Copenhagen based Cafe Teatret, Christian Lollike, has plans to adapt the 1,500 page manifesto for the stage.

Lollike said that the views espoused by Breivik aren’t unique and that it’s possible a similar type of tragedy could happen again. He believes it is important to understand where Breivik was coming from – “What I’m afraid of is that Breivik’s way of thinking will be left alone and will not be probed and reflected on…”

More from that WorldNetDaily Islamophobe training the FBI in ‘counter terrorism’.The FBI has publicly declared that its counterterrorism training seminars linking “mainstream” Muslims to terrorists was a “one time only” affair that began and en… . . . → Read More: FBI instructed to forget ‘Irrelevant’ al-Qaida, target Islam

When Jared Loughner shot dead six people in Tuscan in an attempted murder of congresswoman Gabby Giffords, there was several interesting reactions outside of the obviously deserved expressions of sympathy and horror at the tragedy. It is worth comparin… . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: Oslo vs Tuscan: Asymmetric Reactions

So here is some semi-informed speculation. In his manifesto, mass murderer Anders Brievik refers to his connections to members of the pan-European Far Right, in particular this weird group called “The Knight’s Templar”, He says: I had o… . . . → Read More: BigCityLib Strikes Back: Brievik’s English Helper?